Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Redmond TV and your latest episode of Transfer Insight. My name is Dan Club. I'm absolutely delighted to be joined by sports data journalists for Opta, David Seigar. David, my friend, how are you? Okay.

Very well, thanks. How are you? Yeah, I'm all good, thanks. I'm all good. Ready for the summer. Ready for what looks to be a very busy summer from Liverpool

point of view. It started already just as I thought we're going to have a quiet two weeks

or so and let the Club World Cup people do their business. Liverpool have been more active than

anybody could have foreseen and here we are about to speak about a couple of players who Liverpool

are currently on the brink of maybe signing,

he says, through Gritted Thief just about.

Yeah, it's been a quite protracted negotiation with one in particular, but we are getting

there, I think it's fair to say, right now.

And we'll start with the one we seem to be getting there with Florian Virz.

Top line, wonderful football, amazing footballer, love

watching him, entertainment, double-footed, creative, just a joy to behold really. But beyond

all of that, when you dig a little bit beneath the surface as you've so brilliantly done in your

recent piece entitled, Why Liverpool target Flavianverts will be worth

the record fee. He's just great, isn't he, I guess David? But there's more to it than that,

isn't it? He's great in terms of eye test, but he's also just great in terms of numbers as well.

Yeah, I mean, obviously when you do what we do, which is to try and back things up with the data,

you're always hopeful that a player you've seen and has passed the eye test also passes the data test

because they do go hand in hand.

Like you can't really have one without the other.

So there's plenty of players who you'd see who you'd think.

Well, he looks amazing.

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